MJPerini wrote:
This is really getting old.
People should use whatever they choose to use and unless we are asked for our opinion, it is pretty much none of our business. Why should we even care why someone chooses to use a particular camera? Let alone the disparagement of someone else's choices.
If the camera you use, produces the results you want, it is adequate for the task. Period.
By the same token, if you choose to use a previous generation of camera technology, don't 'justify it' by suggesting that mirrorless technology is not better technology in many demonstrable ways, that point is beyond argument.
But use what you want and no 'justification ' is ever necessary.
The truth is, very few of us are "Camera Limited", if we are honest, most of us are skills or effort limited.... we have plenty of room to improve before the camera becomes a limiting factor. If a new feature becomes available ,...say.. Subject tracking, Eye tracking etc and it would be a game changer for the work we do, THEN we are closer to being camera limited. But it is still a personal choice.
Personally, I am still using cameras with mirrors. 2 Canon 5D IV's and a 1Ds III. Not because I think these are better than the latest available, but because I know how much better they are than ME. I do not use subject tracking etc, because the work I tend to do is SLOW. The latest generation of lenses I have are incredibly good. I can make any picture I want to make. Frankly , I am surprised by this, I thought I would have moved long ago, but I just have not felt the need or desire.
Another factor is age, my cameras seem to be gaining weight each year and a couple of R5's would not be significantly lighter with lenses attached.
But something else has changed, some of the best, most expressive photographs I have ever made have been made with my phone,---not by specific choice, but because it was ALWAYS there. That has changed me.
So it is increasingly likely that my next camera may be something like a Leica Q3.
I've spent a good part of my life in Photography as a pretty good Professional with Clients like IBM, Cutty Sark , lifestyle & drug Companies , Architectural work etc, But also as a pretty good Amateur with gallery representation.
Good Pictures are camera dependent only in so far as you need one.
Pictures can be objectively good, subjectively good, or neither, and all three can be important to us for various reasons. The reasons are always Ours.
So this recurring theme of Judging people by the camera they choose to use is shallow and a waste of time.
The world could really use a little less judging, especially among people who share an interest.
At its best , this place can be genuinely helpful and entertaining.
This is as close to a rant as I get. I do not mean it that way.
I really think we can do better, and it would be more fun.
...all the best
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